UCD only college to significantly cut course options

Latest figures on CAO entry-level courses show the slow pace of change, but should not come as a shock.

A similar comparison a year ago by the Irish Examiner, which counted only courses open for applications from Leaving Certificate students, showed that the numbers rose by 13 to 68 since 2011 at DCU, by eight up to 50 at Maynooth University (MU), and from 51 to 58 at UCC.

Only UCD had significantly reduced its course offerings since 2011, a pattern it had already begun before then to offer more generic entry routes for school-leavers, such as engineering or science.